Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Part Two

Easter with my family today was low key partly due to the fact that there aren't as many people as my husband's side of the family. We went to brunch with my parents, came home to put the boys down for a nap and went to their house in the afternoon. It was just my parents, my brother and his family and us.

The boys did a little better today than yesterday. They actually took a nap this afternoon for 2 hours which helped and didn't end up going to bed until 8pm which is later than normal. They got so screwed up on  naps this weekend that I hope it doesn't set us up for a bad week this week. Last night poor Jaxson was coughing so much but ended up going to sleep. I am praying this sickness passes soon so they can be better for vacation in a few weeks!


Playing with my niece's princess car


Laundry basket fun


My niece, Shea and Jaxson


Peek-a-boo!


HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!


Saturday, April 23, 2011

Easter Part One

This is the first year that we are having TWO easters! One with my husband's side of the family and one with mine (like usual). My husband's family lives all over so coming together is hard. We usually only see the extended family once a year for a family reunion and that only started 4 years ago. So now that everybody enjoyed getting together and didn't mind the drive, they decided to have Easter!

My hubby and I had this fantastic plan that we would leave when the boys normally take their afternoon nap and they would sleep on the way there and wake up in a great mood. Not the case..........within the last 24 hours they picked up a cough and kept waking themselves up in the car and only slept a total of 30 minutes when their afternoon nap is normally 1-2 hours.

Even so, they weren't in the worst mood and we ended up staying longer than expected. When we got home, we gave them baths, got jammies on, ate dinner and put them to bed..........or tried to. That's when the coughing started again and Jaxson is still up, 30 minutes later!

Here are some pictures from today:


Our second Easter family picture


Handsome Jayce giving his shy look


Giggly Jaxson


This was the boys very first time around a dog. At first they didn't like it but Jayce couldn't get enough after he saw that it wasn't so bad.


My little men


Thursday, April 21, 2011

Finally............something funny!

The twins are the youngest kids on both sides of the family so naturally, I'm envious of all the funny things my nieces say. I want the boys to talk so I can have the funny stories to document and look back on years later. Little did I know that I'd have something funny to say before they started talking..................

This morning the boys were up a little earlier than normal wanting to get out of their cribs. I walk into their bedroom and everything, I mean EVERYTHING in their cribs was on the floor. We have their room set up where their cribs are across from one another so naturally, everything was in the middle leaving no where to walk. I almost wish I had taken a picture................but I'm sure it'll happen again!

It didn't stop there! The dresser is right next to Jaxson's crib and he will sometimes pull open the top drawer and take out what he can grab so in addition to all the stuff from their crib, their was pajamas thrown in the mix that had to be refolded!

It gets better yet..............I walk in and put my hands on my hips and say 'what did you do!?'. Jaxson proceeds to look me straight in the eye and throw his nuk into the pile and laugh!

Those are my wonderful little men!


Saturday, April 16, 2011

15 month well check

The boys had their well check yesterday and things are going good. So good that they aren't due back until 2 years now. I have been so used to taking them every 3 months that getting to their 2 year well check seems like an eternity!

Jayce has grown 1 1/2 inches since his 1 year well check!!!! He WAS in the 80% percentile for height but now he's average at 33". He currently weighs about 25-26lbs. He was wiggling a lot standing on the scale so we only got an approximate.

Jaxson has grown as well. He is now at 32" and 23lbs. His height is catching up to Jayce's but he's still gonna be a skinny little thing. I still think he'll play soccer with is short and fast little legs but my hubby begs to differ!

The boys are learning more sign language, too, which is exciting for us. They both are doing so well with ball, baby, more and eat. We now added please and milk to the list and are currently trying to teach them sleep. We did ask about this at their doctors appointment if learning too much sign language will delay speech and the answer was no. They were preemies (only a month early) and twins so naturally they will be a little behind anyways and boys generally speak later than girls as well so the doctor thinks they should be just fine.

I don't have any current pictures to post but I will take some more next week at Easter and have those up as soon as I can!